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This site aggregates and filters content from thought leaders who talk about topics such as Marketing , Sales , Design , Revenue , Hiring , Social Media , Business Models , Metrics , PR , Venture Capital , Angel Investors , Bootstrapping , Incubators , Agile and many others.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, August 24, 2009 Marching through quicksand I have been spending a lot of time lately talking to people in various media companies: editors and agents, executives, journalists, producers and directors. For established media empires, this is a scary fact.

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Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium

Startup Lessons Learned

It requires separating the product launch from the marketing launch (see Dont Launch ) as well as other staple Lean Startup tactics: minimum viable product, split-testing, customer development and the pivot. SlideShare asked customers what they had expected in the product; the responses were often literal descriptions.

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Business ecology and the four customer currencies

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, December 14, 2009 Business ecology and the four customer currencies Lately, I’ve been rethinking the concept of “business model&# for startups, in favor of something I call “business ecology.&# Now consider a traditional media business. And this is true outside of games.

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The “Good” Student « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

You don’t get grades for having resiliency, curiosity, agility, resourcefulness, pattern recognition and tenacity. Reply Quote of the Day | Bronte Media , on April 7, 2009 at 7:28 pm Said: [.] From the king of customer development, Steve Blank: [.] You just get successful. No one has to tell them to do that.

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Media Temple. Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social Media Tracking/Marketing. IE Developer Toolbar (for ie6 & ie7). analytics for social media and online. social media and email marketing. Agile project management tool that enables real time collaboration. Amazon Web Services.